Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 8

And there stood a chair right and tight, that seemed to say, "Come, sit down in me."

Who acts: that · What happens: stand, seem, say, come, sit down · To what, where: chair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stood	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stood	expl
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chair	det
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obj
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stood	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tight	cc
8	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 right	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
16	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sit	punct
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Come	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sit	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a chair	there	right property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus
2	seem	past	that				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	that not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit down in a quote	infinitive				in me	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in i=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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